iPad 3 4G Teardown — Our CXO flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia and was first in line to get the iPad 3 for our deconstructive pleasure. A big thanks to Macfixit Australia for letting us use their facility for the teardown! Tech Specs: Dual-core Apple A5X processor 9.7 inch LED backlit …

Evidence of Apple chip design change in iPad teardown — Apple needs some serious silicon to drive that gorgeous, pixel-dense display. — (Credit: Apple) — Apple has changed the design of the main chip in the new iPad with tweaks to accommodate a higher-performing chip, according to teardown analysis.

Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google — Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. — Rose's mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink. — Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” …

Google in New Privacy Probes — Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple Inc.'s Safari Web browser, according to people familiar with the investigations. Google stopped the practice last month …

Microsoft Office 15 Preview — Forget the rumors. Here's what it's really like to use the Office 15 Technical Preview, which Microsoft recently made available only to a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreement. I was able to get my hands on a copy, and while it's …

YouMail Lets Users Permanently Block Calls on Android — YouMail, an Irvine CA-based startup founded in 2007 that focuses on delivering value-add services to smartphone users, is debuting a new feature today in its Android applications. It's one that users will likely flock to …

The Retina iPad Apps To Test Tonight And Tomorrow — The new iPad nears. Apparently Walmart will be selling them in just a few short hours, well before Apple itself does tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, the first direct-to-consumer shipments should be hitting anytime now.

Anarchy in the App Store — Path bills itself as a social network that cares about privacy. For a while it was also an App Store outlaw. When iPhone users downloaded it through Apple's popular storefront, the software surreptitiously sent a user's entire contacts list—including e-mail addresses …

Groupon UK told to clean up after record complaints — Over the last year, the U.K. arm of Groupon has been the subject of a record number of complaints about the way it advertises deals to users, makes claims about products on sale and treats users. — Now the company has been told …